Al Oregon

Nice ones - will be bidding!

Beautiful marble! But, for the newbies out there, most of those colors are blends. A true 5 color cork is very hard to find.

My avatar (to the left) is one of my favorite oxbloods!

I'm leaning towards a Ravenswood on Maggie's marble - nice one!

I've posted this picture before but will do it again - some of the colorful Champions that I like. Plus another pictures of some of my Champion 'furnace' marbles.

Nice bags, Craig. I attached a picture from Sep. 2000 of a bag similar to your Pressman. It had corals in it, too. The other marbles look like they might be Champion so that may help the theory that most of these corlas were Champion (at least from a being found in packaging concept). The rippled wheat bags are neat - some different color meshes found with those. The last bag reminds me of other bags with Peltiers that I thought were done by a distributer/jobebr like Berry Pink. Pressman seemed to put his company name on his headers but there are a lot in that time frame that had no company name. Some of the 'Champion' headers on mesh bags were similar to those and they had Peltiers. Of course, it is possible that Marble King didn't use their company name when they first started packaging. They packaged Peltiers when they did start using the name so maybe these were forerunners. Berry Pink was at the beginning of Marble King and apparently did keep his owne company during the early years so maybe some kind of 'hybrid'...? You going to sell the first or last?

I'd be interested in the Vitro bag - just sent you a message through the board. The email address I had for you doesn't work any more.

I'm always interested in some of those, too, Greg. Let me know. Thanks for the offer.

I'm seeing more of the 8 vane cat's-eyes showing up on eBay and bringing good money. I'm not talking about the Vitro 8 finger transparents and opaques but cage style cat's-eyes. In my opinion, these are almost all newer marbles so be aware. They are part of the many out of the Imperial packaging from Far East, India, etc. Here's pics from one package I have.

Here's Ron Shaw's picture of his Kato with oxblood

I don't think any of them are - JMHO.

You might email Alan, too. While I don't think he has been there, he might have some good contact names.

I had never met Les but communicated with him about marble bags a few times over the years. He had a wealth of knowledge and was willing to help me learn. This is a sad day for the marble hobby! My condolences to the family!

That is a nice find! Those cello bags are pretty fragile and disintegrate pretty easily so that is probably why we don't see many floating around. The double ender headers are nice - a necessity since the ends of the bags would break more easily than the center. I have one like that. There is also a Vitro Victory Agates double ender bag that I have. Here's a pic